(New Braunfels, TX) -- City officials will officially break ground this morning on the Walnut Avenue widening and reconstruction project. That long awaited, 14.8-million dollar project, will officially get underway at 10am with a ceremony planned at the corner of Walnut and West San Antonio street. The city has spent the last 2 years working on right of way acquisition, with a couple of...
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December 10, 2010
(Spring Branch, TX) -- Financial problems with the Spring Branch Volunteer Fire Department have since led to the collapse of that agency, and a takeover of its operations by Emergency District #4, a taxing entity that covers most of the Spring Branch and Bulverde area. ESD #4 is actually in charge of providing the fire service, using the tax revenue it creates, and until this month they...
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December 10, 2010
(New Braunfels, TX) -- Coming up this afternoon, the city will hold a public hearing for residents to come and speak about the city’s 56 ½ million dollar general fund budget. Despite lower property values, which dipped about 1% over last year, and increased costs for services, the city has been able to balance the budget with no tax rate increase. Some of that gap was taken care of through...
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December 10, 2010
(New Braunfels, TX) -- Immediately following today's budget public hearing, the city will hold the first of three city drainage meetings right across the street from City Hall, over at the Civic and Convention Center. Each meeting this week will look at individual areas of town, and will give residents in those districts a chance to get an update from city staff about what’s already being...
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December 10, 2010
(Comal County, TX) -- At yesterday morning’s Commissioner's Court meeting, the county learned that Ballenger Construction has opted out of their contract with the county for work on the Dry Comal Creek Flood Control Dam, which effectively ends all construction on that project until the county can find and hire another company. But will they have enough time to do that, and still meet the...
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December 10, 2010
(Comal County, TX) -- Comal County Commissioners approved their budget for the upcoming fiscal year at a special meeting yesterday afternoon, but not without a fairly major change. Pct 3 Commissioner Greg Parker proposed that instead of a 3% across the board cost of living increase for county employees, he’d like to see that the hourly-wage employees for the county get a 2% increase, and...
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December 10, 2010
(Comal County, TX) -- A fire at a Bracken-area storage business has been ruled accidental, and the damages are estimated to be as much as a million dollars, after flames tore through the storage business on FM 2252 Wednesday afternoon. Just before 3pm, New Braunfels firefighters joined crews from Bracken, Schertz, Bulverde, and Selma, taking on the fire that sent a huge plume of black smoke...
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December 10, 2010
(New Braunfels, TX) -- New Braunfels city staff and city council members will begin a series of drainage meetings on Monday of next week, with 3 meetings in all, focusing on current drainage projects underway in each district of the city, and which areas still need drainage work in the coming years. The first meeting is this coming Monday at 6pm at the New Braunfels Civic and Convention...
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December 10, 2010
(New Braunfels, TX) -- Today is an Air Quality Health Alert Day. Sunny, hot, nearly breeze-less conditions will make for more ground-level pollutants today, and so TCEQ and the Alamo Area Council of Governments have issued an Air Quality Health Alert, which means the air quality today may cause problems for those that suffer from asthma and other breathing problems (plus the very young and...
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December 10, 2010
(New Braunfels, TX) -- Wurstfest is getting ready for their 50th 10-day Salute to Sausage, and several projects that have been underway throughout the year are either complete, or right on track to be complete, ahead of the ceremonial biting of the sausage. Wurstfest Executive Director Suzanne Herbelin says they are continuing construction on a new building for the Wurstfest...
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